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excorticates

excorticates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of excorticate.

Meaning of excorticate

Verb

excorticate (third-person singular simple present excorticates, present participle excorticating, simple past and past participle excorticated)

  1. (archaic, obsolete) To strip of bark, shell or skin.
    • Moſs is to be rubb'd and ſcrap'd off with ſome fit inſtrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree, or with a piece of Hair-cloth after a ſobbing Rain: [...]1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal...

Questions about excorticates

What is excorticates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Excorticates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of excorticate.

Words near excorticates in the dictionary

  1. excorporate
  2. excorporation
  3. excorporations
  4. excorticate
  5. excorticated
  6. excorticates
  7. excorticating
  8. excortication
  9. excortications
  10. excos
  11. excosec

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Adapted from Wiktionary: excorticates (page history and authors); excorticate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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